February 2012
24 posts
Powers of 10 - Amazing →
Super mega awesome!
You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never... →
Too many good things to quote out of this.
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“So there you have it: That’s the best case that can be made against gay...”
– Why the Proponents of a Gay Marriage Ban Will Soon Be Speechless - Slate Magazine
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“Once again, the explanation for this effect returns us to the benefits of not...”
– Why Being Sleepy and Drunk Is Great for Creativity | Wired Science | Wired.com
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MobilityWOD →
All human beings should be able to perform basic maintenance on themselves
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Using Research to Predict Great Teachers →
It’s like Moneyball for teachers.
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“The role of the imagination is to create new meanings and to discover...”
– Iconic designer and legendary curmudgeon Paul Rand on the role of the imagination. (via curiositycounts)
“It’s not ‘content then design’, or ‘content or design’. It’s ‘content and...”
– Structure First. Content Always. | Mark Boulton
Honeywell goes after Nest Learning Thermostat for... →
If you can patent the use of complete sentences while programming something our patent system is fucking broken.
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Watchcuriositycounts:
Filmmaker Temujin Doran, of The Art of Protest and Market Maketh Man fame, on how politicians use historical revisionism as a tool for campaigning.
“True believers have always felt something more, an extra dimension that has...”
– An obsessive history of The Elements of Style and what makes it a cultural treasure. (via curiositycounts)
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Creationism is bad science →
To sum
It’s scientifically unsound - i.e. it’s not science
It’s theologically unsound - who the fuck cares
It’s bad for business - real science = real education
It’s unconstitutional - creationism is religion not science, religion does not belong in public education
In sum… someone should expel these idiots from their state senate and replace them with...
“So what would our mornings look like if we re-engineered them in the interest of...”
– New neurosciences studies show most morning routines kill creativity, but there might be something we can do about it. (via curiositycounts)
January 2012
39 posts
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“content creators have been happily coexisting with piracy all this time, and I’m...”
– Jonathan Coulton
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“We should delight in the stand we’ve taken in favor of things like, say,...”
– Pick up the pitchforks: David Pogue underestimates Hollywood « Clay Shirky
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Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class -... →
A great read on Apple’s manufacturing process and the dynamics of globalized workforces.
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NounProject →
This is an awesome set of pictograms :)
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“Our offices should encourage casual, cafe-style interactions, but allow people...”
– The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com
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“religion stems from the uniquely human and narcissistic desire to believe that...”
– » What Should Rational People Tolerate? Coffee Theory
The Complete Guide to Snapping the Fuck Out of It →
I heart Julien :)
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“In the process of industrialization, the people who mastered one technology...”
– The New York Times’s Nick Kristof On Journalism In A Digital World And The Age Of Activism | Fast Company